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Burned Wagons Point

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Near this point, a Jayhawker group of the Death Valley Forty-Niners, gold seekers from the Middle West who entered Death Valley in 1849 seeking a short route to the mines of Central California, burned their wagons, dried the meat of some oxen, and with their surviving animals struggled westward on foot.
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